San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-01
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

JEFFERSON DAVIS Is In favor Of Grover
Cleveland for the presidency In 1888
This fact will have its weight with
southern voters.
SALISBURY, so says the London News,
is already sick Of his fisheries commits
sioner, Cham berlain, and regrets his ap-
pOintment. Salisbury should have con.
SIdered this before making two CONT
nents sick OF such sycophant.
ONE thousand barrels of Kentucky
whiskey, stored at Brt men fOrtwO years
to avoid tax, has been reshipped 10
America. The shipping charges are
less than the tax would have been.
The springfield Union says that Post
master General Villas presidential boom
mas been returned to the dead letter
office, being minus stamps. Villas was
too double minded TO frank IL.
That Padre Island pier and breakwa.
ter prof ct has not yet been abandoned.
he parties Interested therein and who
have secured the water front and the
I.land, are negotiating with eastern
capitalists, and a report is promised
soon.
CONGRESSMAN GRAIN is said to have
captured M8ssiliOn. Ohio, for the dem
ooracy. All that William Henry cap
lures will not change the fact that odds
are offered 10 Ohio that Foraker carries
he state by over twenty thousand, and
no takers.
THE Cleveland Plain Dealer ia very
much misnamed. For ways that are
dark and for Tricks that are vain this
Cleveland Plain Dealer leads all Ohio.
Ii is the boss liar OF the demo ratio
prize group.
"ANY carpenter can put up a building
but only the Lord can make a tree grow
into beauty and grace" This sphorism Of
the Iimes-Star, OF Cincinnati is COM
mended to the careful consideration of
vandsls who never read, or reading,
never needed the poets entresty,
"WOOdman spare that tree"
CARLISLE joins the forlorn hope of
the democracy which is rallying for the
conf CT in Ohio, hoping TO keep Fora.
kpr's majority down to respectable pro-
portions. All that frOthy orators and
solid cash can do TO carry Ohio for the
democracy is heing done, but IL ia being
done in vain. Cleveland has ordered all
his reserves into the breach.
GROVER fitted through Ohio like bat
through the night, Dave Hill would not
hesTken to the distress cry, and the
presence Of ex Ku- Klux Gordon, of
Georgia, gives no surCeasP from sorrow
20 the Ohio democracy. 1t it another
case Of Minnie, Minnie, tickle de par
son." as the DutChman said when he at
tempted to repeat the Cabalistic words
OF Daniel.
CLEVELAND beats the record. He made
1880 miles Of speeCh-making journey,
which carried him through seventeen
ates OF the nation over which he was
unfortunately elected president, and
~ all that time he managed very sue.
cessful to avoid all allusiOn to the patri-
otto services OF the soldiers of this ma
lion His must have been very old
copy OF the encyclopedias.
THB question is seriously agitating
the manufacturing circles OF the south
into which northern capital has been
pouring OF late. Did Atlanta COnstitu-
ION Grady represent the real south in
MS northern speeches, or was the real
south represented by JEFF Davis at Ma
HOn, and by jackson at Richmond 1t Is
OF some Importance to have this yexed
matter settled.
A CALL Is made for an ice chest, in
which TO keep Davis and Jackson and
their speeches until next summer. There
are plenty of the same sort in the south
Ghe supply is not likely to run out.
they are good republican campaign
documents. They won't do the demOc
raoy any harm in Texas, but they will
draw blisters in Indiana and Ohio.
GORMANI NJ triumphed In Maryland at
he Baltimore election. 1t is no longer
an issue 10 that state, between the re-
publicans and the democrats, but be-
tween decenCy and unbIushing effrOnt.
ry, between political honesty and the
most open corruption. Organized
scOundrelism is in the ascendant, and 1t
remains to be seen how far the Cleve-
land administration is made psrtaker of
lts evil deeds.
The person TO whom OF all others the
armies OF the Tennessee and the Cum
berland delighted in paying honor at
Cincinnati last week, was old Mother
BiCkerdyke, the famous nurse of the
field hospitals. Her heroic and mother
ly sacrifices for the boys In blue are
never forgotten when the story of the
march and the fight, the camp and the
hospital are being rehearsed around the
reunion Camptires. She was In very
deed the Florence Nightingale of the
armies OF the west.
TIE OPEN COURT, liberal fortnightly
journal, devoted to the work of estab
fishing religion and ethics upon q scien-
tific basis, reaches this Office most OPP
portunely. A very hurried examination
of its contents shows IL to be edited
with excellent judgment and replete
with valuable matter, well digested and
directly addressed to the advanced and
cultured thought OF the day. The names
OF such writer's as TolstOi, ThOs. Went
worth HigginsOn, Max Mueller, and
others Of like prominence, are a sutfi-
cent guarantee OF The really philOsophi-
| cal nature Of the matter presented. The
| free thinkers Of this city, in the church
| and out, will find very much to Instruct
and interest in this semi-monthly session